Sentences with phrase «understood as an attempt»

A central idea in Burke's approach to rhetoric is the principle of identification, which may be understood as the attempt to overcome human division through the establishment of some common ground.

The word «God» and stories of God could then be understood as attempts to focus more sharply and linguistically the opaque but powerful feeling given in primary perception that something permanent and preservative runs through the becoming and perishing of events.

It's better understood as an attempt to signal that trans students are welcome and valued on campus.

Emotional eating is best understood as the attempt to access positive feelings through eating.

The conservative call for practicality must be understood as an attempt to sabotage the forms of teacher and student self - reflection required for a quality education, all the while providing an excuse for a prolonged moral coma and flight from responsibility.

Market timing, commonly understood as attempting to sell stocks when the market is near a high and buying back in when it is near a low, has fallen into disrepute in recent decades.

In some ways, Kasseböhmer's entire oeuvre can be understood as an attempt to save the pictorial space of painting and bring it intact — with all its rich knowledge base, technical interplays and entire depth of meaning — into the present day.

In fact, it could arguably be understood as an attempt to map Yves Klein's undefined and borderless cosmos and to ground it in the categories of the tableau.

Not exact matches

To start a sales relationship off right, you have to offer value out of the gate, but just as important is attempting to understand a prospect's challenges.

People may perceive your heavy nods as an attempt to show you agree with or understand something that you actually don't.

Asking more questions in your attempt to understand their point of view will also help diffuse the situation as you are showing a genuine desire to hear what the other person has to say.

If you understand this fact, then suddenly, you can have a better attitude toward the change in your life while continuing to attempt to control the outcomes as much as possible — but not letting the things that are out of control upset you.

Wang said a number of steps must be taken to attempt correction of the miss, including reviewing if pollsters adequately captured hard - to - poll demographics — such as blue - collar white voters — and as beginning to understand how to capture the leanings of undecided voters.

Of course, it'll be a great recruitment tool for the company; the more data women enter about their reproductive cycles — and Glow gets personal: It asks about the sexual positions couples use while attempting to conceive, for example — the better Glow will work as Levchin, Huang, and the team apply machine - learning to the information to develop a deeper understanding of how to advise future users on how and when to conceive.

Not for the communist atrocities those were caused by attempts to engineer society, based on a flawed understanding of innate human nature and a fallacious belief in humans beings as blank slates.

And, as the normal way of thinking about moral obligations was to understand them as the commands of God, the first defense or justification of this belief was an attempt to show that this is what God commanded.

I reassured myself that this was the true philosophical position — an attempt to understand my two friends as they understood themselves.

Of course, we are engaging a Mystery in the deepest sense when we seek a direct encounter with God and existentialism has its serious limitations as do all human attempts at understanding; but I am drawn to Kierkegaard's insight into prayer:

The Christian must therefore attempt to understand sympathetically the life of Jesus: that is, attempt to experience his life as he experienced it, and learn from his experience.

But before attempting an answer, I should say that I understand «ideology» pejoratively as «the integrated assertions, theories and aims constituting a politico - social program,... with an implication of factitious propagandizing...» (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary).

I hope you will take this not as me attacking your views but as me honestly attempting to better understand a particular viewpoint that has baffled me for years.

We should attempt to understand the scandals associated with Mark Driscoll as indicative of the crimes and passions we excuse or berate in our various heroes as a mirror to critique our own loyalties and ethics.

Whoever wants to replace the Creator's realization of this plan by a totally autonomous evolution, inevitably either ascribes some mythic creative power to evolution, or else abandons any attempt at rational understanding and explains everything as the blind play of arbitrary chance.

Finally, in the justly famous, but very obscure section of «Force and the Understanding» known as the «Inverted World,» the metaphysical distinction inherent in all designations such as inner - outer, intelligible - sensible, noumenal - phenomenal collapses, and with it the attempt of substance or «essence» metaphysics to evade contradiction by locating «contradictories» (or contraries) in ontologically disparate realms.

Instead, it might better be understood as the Christian community's serious attempt to develop a fuller understanding of one of life's possibilities: the person at play.

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As I understand the situation, however, Kim Davis was not attempting to «override the law» in Kentucky.

Although acknowledging that pastoral counseling had the same ultimate aim as other dimensions of pastoral work — that of bringing people to Christian faith and the Christian fellowship, where those goals were «relevant» — Hiltner defined the special aim of pastoral counseling in more flexible terms, virtually indistinguishable from those of secular counseling: «The attempt by a pastor to help people help themselves through the process of gaining understanding of their inner conflicts» (Pastoral Counseling, 1949).

Rather it attempts only to point out the logical and cosmological congruity of these unobtrusive formative factors with nature as understood by science.

The above outlined distinctions are not intended merely as a technical exercise but as an attempt better to understand and foster the proper use of the marriage act.

I think scripture is a rich metaphor created by human in an attempt to understand the presence of evil in the world, as well as to express their hope that it will end.

Having, therefore, lived for years with Biblical scholars as my friends and colleagues and in the classroom having dealt with students, trying to gain a coherent and usable understanding of the Bible for practical purposes, I have dared the attempt to put together developments of ideas which the separate Biblical disciplines leave apart.

New definitions, such as those attempted here, serve to distinguish certain meanings of a term in preference to others in the hope that these will be more consistent and more serviceable in creating a community of understanding than the term in its full ambiguity and vagueness was able to do.

«Letters released to the media prior to delivery to their intended recipients,» he says, «can never be considered as serious attempts to engender either cooperation or understanding.»

I shall be discussing primarily the contemporary attempts to reduce life and mind to «matter» as it is understood by a physics and chemistry that may themselves be out of date.

If you've followed my z - theory at all, you will understand that I see the story of the incarnation as a powerful metaphor that attempts to describe reality.

It should serve as a standard, a mark of distinction, or criterion against which to measure our attempts to articulate metaphysical assumptions adequate to understanding this success.

As you read the verses, make an attempt to understand what they say without anger, emotion and / or prejudgment!

After the tsunami in 2004 he wrote several commentaries in response to what he regarded as unhelpful attempts to understand that catastrophe theologically.

If you've followed my z - theory at all, you will understand that I see the story of the incarnation as a powerful metaphor that attempts to...

It shows, that is, that certain (and perhaps all) attempts to attain metaphysical understanding of reality presuppose a final unity and meaningfulness of reality and that this presupposition may only make sense in terms of God as an ontologically, valuatively, and rationally ultimate and unifying reality.

And what guidance do we receive from the Christian tradition as we attempt to understand both the nature of children and our responsibility to them?

Therefore, the diversity of world - views and words as legitimate attempts to understand and articulate reality is acknowledged and respected.

The main point is that the inclusivist can read the second part of this paper as an attempt to understand cohesive nexus in terms of the logic of relations.

Movements such as de-colonization, the rise of Communism — especially the expulsion of missionaries from China by the Communists — and the attempt to vindicate Human Rights culminating in the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) have direct and indirect impact on mission understanding.

If you can't understand my explanation above and see that as an attempt at discrediting, without pointing out where exactly it's wrong, then there isn't much more I can do, other than hope one day you'll learn something.

Perhaps the most «applied» approach at the conference was that of a professor at a southeastern university who simultaneously participates in Benedictine life and Zen meditation, attempting to understand these traditions concretely rather than as an observer.

This was understood by the Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton, for example, as he attempted to appropriate Zen Buddhist insights.

In this chapter I have attempted to present an understanding of our human existence which is true to the facts, so far as we know them, which makes sense of and gives sense to our experience, and which indicates what is meant when we speak, as we do, of the worth and value in our lives.

I take it to be something which, far from being of little value, is in truth of quite enormous value in our attempt to come to some understanding of God's way of securing permanent validity for that which otherwise would be nothing other than an instance of the «perpetual perishing» which patently marks the world as we know it.